Not only did he successfully reoccupy the Rhineland in the morning, he also personally came up with brilliant innovations of army organization, he sent his foreign minister to conclude a treaty with the Soviets to conduct joint research as well a non-aggression pact with Stalin. While Hitler always knew that he was visionary genius even he must have been unusually impressed with himself on January 1st 1936. Scenario setup or Alien Space bats with orbital mind control lasers having a busy day. The solution I have come up with is use cheats Focus.AutoComplete (fa) and Focus.NoChecks cheats. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem any option to force Germany to pick the “Alliance with the USSR focus” so I can’t just set up a normal game.

You see I like playing as the United States and I don’t like giving the AI ludicrous advantages so I thought forcing a German-Soviet alliance would make for an interesting challenge. Even as a very casual gamer, I have found playing as the United States incredibly easy.

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